What was supposed to be the 34th and final day of the championship Ligue 2ready to transform itself into the stage of a historic celebration, has instead thrown Le Mans into a situation of paradoxical. At present, in fact, the promotion to Ligue 1 it is momentarily pending because of theinterruption of the match that saw the Giallorossi opposing the SC Bastiaat the Stade Armand-Cesari in Furiani.
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What would have been a historic victory
As regards the purely sporting aspect, on the field the men led by Patrick Videira had largely carried out their task. The opening of the scoring came with a flash of Erwan Colas in the 16th minute of the game, he did well to return a ball rejected on the goal line following a corner kick. From then on, the guests skilfully managed the advantage they gained, even coming close to doubling their lead and hitting a sensational crossbar with Dame Gueye. The turning point seemed to have come in the 91st minute, when Milan Robin he scored the final 0-2 goal in full injury time, sparking the joy of the bench and sealing, at least theoretically, the victory. Yet, it was exactly this second goal that triggered the degeneracy of events.
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The referee’s decision and the wait for Le Mans
Intense starts from the stadium stands throwing smoke bombs and the explosion of paper bombs, directed dangerously towards the pitch. Faced with the escalation of these serious accidents and to a context of public order that has become uncontrollable, the referee Bouquet made the decision to immediately send the two teams back to the locker rooms. Following a long meeting and after more than forty minutes of anxious waiting, the official communication arrived: the match is permanently suspended. The crucial detail, however, is that the refereeing team did not proceed with the immediate approval of the score gained on the field.
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Until the leaders of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) and the members of his Disciplinary commission they will not have examined the report and validated the result of the matchthe arrival in the top flight of transalpine football cannot be ratified in any way. In the background, the Saint-Étienne it did its duty by beating Amiens with a peremptory 5-0, but for now it remains virtually in third place behind Le Mans, subject precisely to the official validation of what happened in Corsica.
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